CHONGQING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- An alleged ringleader stood trial Tuesday on eight charges, including organization of criminal gangs, in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.

    Other seven charges Yue Ning faced included: organizing prostitution, bribery, harboring drug addicts, causing social disturbance, false imprisonment, deliberate destruction of accounting vouchers, and destroying account books.

    The trial would last six days in Chongqing's No. 5 Intermediate People's Court.

    Each of the other 30 defendants related to Yue faced two to eight charges, according to a court spokesman.

    Prosecutors accused Yue of organizing criminal gangs since 1998with four other core members.

    "I admit that the charges are basically true," said Yue at the court hearing Tuesday.